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International Paper Takes Corporate Greenwashing to a Whole New Level

Latest website provokes unintentional laughter.

 
Ending the Taxpayer Giveaway for False Climate Solutions

It's time to invest our tax dollars in truly environmental solutions to climate change, not false solutions like burning our forests...

 
Remembering Alison Cochran

Dogwood Alliance mourns the passing of longtime forest activist and talented musician Alison Cochran.

 
Take Action to Stop GE Trees in the South!

A short window of opportunity to demand the USDA deny ArborGen permits to do a widescale planting of genetically engineered Eucalyptus in the Southern US...

 
 
Making a difference PDF Print E-mail
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If companies in just the medicine and cosmetics cartons sector switched to 35% post-consumer recycled content, the benefits for our environment and our forests are truly substantial.

According to Environmental Defense’s Paper Task Force, such a switch would:

Save 510,000 tons of trees per year;

Cut 156,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions;

Reduce wastewater discharges by 2.6 billion gallons; and

Prevent 106,000 tons of solid waste, the equivalent of the trash from 49,000 households.

Click here to check out Environmental Defense's Paper Task Force

 
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